LNL Midnight Mixtape: Sweets

Midnight Mixtape: Sweets

On the midnight mixtape, Tony Livesey was joined by Claire Lim to look at listener selections (13/02/2025) with Songs that reference sweets!

Songs in contention

• Guns n'Roses - Sweet child o' mine
• 50 Cent - Candy shop
• Aubrey Woods (Willy Wonka) - Candy man
• Jesus & Mary Chain - Some candy talking
• Grandmaster Flash - White Lines
• Undertones - Mars bars
• Tom Waits - Ice cream man
• Christina Aguilera - Candyman
• Millie - My boy lollipop
• Little Richard - Tutti Frutti
• Searchers - Sweets for my sweet
• Queen - Brighton Rock
• Beach Boys - Disney Girls
• Archies - Sugar Sugar
• Verve - Bitter Sweet Symphony
• Jackson 5 - Candy Girl
• Arctic Monkeys - Crying Lightning
• Skunk Anansie - Love someone else
• John Grant - Marz
• George Michael - Careless Wispa
• Jack Johnson - Banana Pancakes
• De La Soul - Let let me in
• Spinners - Sweet Thing
• Def Leppard - Pour some sugar on me
• Blur - Chemical World
• Julie Andrews - Spoonful of Sugar
• REM - It's the end of the world (as we know it)
• Bow wow wow - I want candy
• Jay-Z - 99 Problems
• Aerosmith - Sweet Emotion
• Harry Styles - Watermelon Sugar High
• Billy Bragg - Shirley
• Bruce Springsteen - Blinded by the light
• Paolo Nutini - Candy
• Monty Python - Galaxy Song
• Pussycat Dolls - Buttons
• Echo & Bunnymen - Looks like a sugar
• Shanks & Bigfoot - Sweet like chocolate
• Roy Orbison - Candy coloured cloud
• David Bowie - Life on Mars
• George Formby - Little stick of Blackpool rock
• Houghton Weavers - Uncle George mint balls
• George Harrison - My Sweet Lord

Final Mixtape

Here's the final mixtape!

[Side 1] Old Sweets
1. Searchers - Sweets for my sweet
2. Millie - My boy lollipop
3. Tom Waits - Ice cream man
4. Beach Boys - Disney Girls
5. George Formby - Little stick of Blackpool rock
6. Aubrey Woods (Willy Wonka) - Candy man
[Side 2] New Sweets
7. 50 cent - Candy shop
8. Shanks & Bigfoot - Sweet like chocolate
9. Billy Bragg - Shirley
10. Arctic Monkeys - Crying Lightning
11. Blur - Chemical World
12. REM - It's the end of the world (as we know it)

Hidden: Julie Andrews - Spoonful of Sugar

Previous Appearances

From the original midnight mixtapes, 5 acts had never been on before, 50 Cent, Aubrey Woods, Millie, Searchers, Shanks & Bigfoot. Here's the list of previous mixtape appearances.

• 9: Blur (8+1), REM (7+2)
• 6: Tom Waits
• 4: Arctic Monkeys (3+1), Beach Boys, Billy Bragg
• 3: Julie Andrews (2+1)
• 1: George Formby